Sponsors

Sponsors

Presentation Sponsor

Nodal Exchange is a derivatives exchange providing price, credit and liquidity risk management solutions to participants in the North American energy markets. Nodal Exchange is a leader in innovation, having introduced the world's largest set of electric power locational (nodal) futures contracts. Nodal Exchange currently offers over 1,000 contracts on hundreds of unique locations, providing the most effective basis risk management available to market participants. In addition, Nodal Exchange offers a Henry Hub natural gas contract providing cross-margining benefits with participant's power portfolios. All Nodal Exchange contracts are cleared by Nodal Clear which is a CFTC registered derivatives clearing organization. Nodal Exchange is a designated contract market regulated by the CFTC.

Panel Sponsor

Eka Software Solutions

Eka is a global leader in providing digital commodity management solutions driven by Cloud, Blockchain, Machine Learning and Analytics. The company’s best-of-breed solutions serve the entire trading value chain across agriculture, energy, metals and mining and manufacturing markets. Eka is reimagining commodity management with a new age architecture that breaks monolithic ETRM systems into bite sized chunks of powerful, enterprise grade apps, thereby enabling faster implementation, adoption and decision making. Eka’s mobile-first, enterprise apps are embedded with commodity specific algorithms that empower businesses to stay on top of volatile markets by letting them scale at will, go live faster, and achieve better value for their investments.

Eka’s offices are located across Americas, Asia, Australia, and EMEA, serving a rapidly growing global client base across multiple commodity segments. For more information, visit www.ekaplus.com.

To learn about how Eka can add value to your operations, email us at info@ekaplus.com

KWA Analytics is a unique consultancy with the primary purpose of providing industry leading services for Openlink products and related implementations. At KWA we believe in delivering the highest quality services to our clients, and our commitment to client fulfilment is core to our company values.

Our range of service offerings encompass consulting, audit, training, upgrade, test automation, support and technical services. We provide clients with access to industry leading expertise to help them improve and optimise their Openlink implementation and solve their most complex and challenging issues.

With teams in Europe, the Americas, India, and Asia-Pacific we work with clients globally and have implemented and provided bespoke Openlink solutions to commodity traders, insurance companies, investment banks, treasuries, oil and gas majors and utilities.

About Lacima

Lacima is a multi-award winning specialist provider of software and advisory services dedicated to trading, valuation, optimization and risk management for global energy and commodities markets.

We help you to maximize your profit potential and make more informed decisions by providing tools that yield more accurate valuations, hedging analysis and risk exposure analysis for portfolios of financial contracts and physical assets. Lacima enables players to enjoy a world first - deals and positions can be valued, traded and subsequently risk managed using the same models and methodologies.

Lacima Analytics is the only commercially available single application for valuation, optimization and risk management for multi-commodity/ multi-geography and/or multi-asset portfolios.

The Lacima Trader suite of products for Traders, Structurers and Front Office are designed to work as stand-alone trading and valuation tools capable of transparent drill down to detailed outputs and value drivers. The Lacima Trader suite has been developed and tested using over one hundred real-world deals and is regularly expanded and enhanced.

Our clients (including trading, structuring, origination, valuation and risk teams in vertically integrated energy companies, energy retailers, financial institutions and large energy consumers), enjoy that our software solutions have been developed and implemented by peer-recognized experts in energy and commodity analytics, offering an unparalleled level of expertise and personalized support.

Established in 1995, ZE’s sole purpose is to help organizations that are data driven to be more efficient through end-to-end data automation and superior services.

ZE is the developer of ZEMA, a comprehensive platform for data aggregation, validation, modelling, automation and integration. By providing unrivaled data collection, analytics, curve management, and integration capabilities, ZEMA offers robust data solutions for clients in all markets and industries. ZE also provides a full range of support and implementation services ensuring full success across all elements of the organization’s needs. ZEMA is available on premise, as a cloud solution via the ZE Cloud, Software as a Service, or Data-as-a-Service. To learn more visit www.ze.comData. We Get It.

Co-Sponsor

Machina Automation is a full service, RPA consulting firm providing our customers with advisory, implementation, training, and support solutions. Machina leverages deep energy domain expertise to help our customers reap the benefits of today's process automation technologies. It is crucial for business advisors and technology partners to have a solid understanding of their client’s business. This is magnified with newer technologies where business users have limited experience with the toolsets and their capabilities. Domain knowledge accelerates implementations and improves process selection decisions, thereby reducing the risk and cost of transformation and dramatically increasing the benefits that can be achieved. In addition to an extensive knowledge of automation technologies, our practitioners average over 15 years of energy experience. This domain expertise across the energy value chain helps us to facilitate your success as you navigate the brave new world of RPA.

Pioneer Solutions is a global provider of award-winning C/ETRM, environmental management and financial and regulatory compliance solutions. Since 2003, Pioneer has been serving some of the largest energy companies, utilities and midstream producers in North America and Europe.

Pioneer’s innovative and flexible solutions have been organically built for rapid implementation and superior services at an overall lower cost of ownership.

Pioneer’s suite of ETRM solutions are based on its web-based FARRMS platform and offer comprehensive front, middle, and back office process management for both physical and financial trades of all asset classes and commodity types.

Developed from the back to the front, resulting in industry-leading data processing and reporting capability, Pioneer’s modern easy-to-use applications deliver ready “out-of-the-box” or tailored functionality designed for ease of implementation and integration with existing systems. With a user-configurable environment for less reliance on vendor services, and with deployment options including a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service offering via www.trmtracker.com, Pioneer offers a fresh alternative to legacy C/ETRM systems